Free COVID-19 Testing for the Public Now Available in Walker County

LaFayette, GA – Any northwest Georgian with symptoms of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, may receive free testing provided by public health at one of four sites in Bartow, Floyd, Paulding, and Walker counties.

Symptoms include fever, dry cough, or shortness of breath.

Call 706-802-5329, 706-802-5885, 706-802-5886 or 706-802-5888 from 8:00 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Saturday to be screened for testing and given a control number for access to a testing site.

You may also send an email to district1-1.eoc@dph.ga.gov and ask to be referred. Please
provide your name and phone number, and someone from DPH will contact you.

The following people without symptoms may also be tested:

Healthcare workers, first responders, and other critical infrastructure workers that have been exposed to COVID-19

Residents of a long-term care facility or other group residential setting experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19

Healthcare workers, first responders, and other critical infrastructure workers that have been exposed to COVID-19
Residents of a long-term care facility or other group residential setting experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19

And that’s high probability. But the reality is, the administration was ill-prepared for this and ill-handled it, and getting the testing kits has been erratic at best. There are only so many test kits, and they cost time and money. We can’t test every single person every single day. So, we test the ones most at risk, or the most-likely infected.